Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: ghostscript (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1953678
Title:
Recommended package, `fonts-droid-fallback` is missing many common
glyphs making it useless as a fallback font.
Status in ghostscript package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Ghostscripts dependency on fonts-droid-fallback is flawed since the
newest version of the package is no longer suitable as a fallback font
due to missing so many glyphs.
Context:
The ghostscript ubuntu package strips out the vendored file and adds a
symlink that is compatible with the fonts-droid-fallback package.
Likely because the font is large enough to have a convenient way of
opting out, esp. since the font is already available via the fonts-
droid-fallback pacakage.
https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/tree/debian/rules?h=ubuntu/focal-
updates#n138
In 2014, as a way of saving space, the fallback font removed common
glyphs
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/034b20c102ee2e7ec1da09e2b080f35be4a5cf54
At some point fonts-droid-fallback pulled in that upstream change, and
now when you install ghostscript alongside fonts-droid-fallback, the
fallback font is actually missing those characters.
Credit to s...@benchling.com for figuring this out.
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